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Show H PALACE FOB SON OF EMPEROR Ruler of Germany Builds for Prince Eitel Residence Costing Cost-ing More Than Million. By Associated Press. POSEN. Aug. 20. Emperor William, the empress, crown prince, Frlcderich Wllhclm and Crown Princess Cccllle, Prince Eltel Frlcdorlch and tho youngor members of the Imperial family arrived here today for a house warming of the new royal residence. Tho festivities will last three days. This palace, tho fifty-first owned by tho emperor, to maintain which he recently sold two of his smaller country placen, haB been built, for reasons of state, to symbolize to the Poles, the Prussian supremacy su-premacy In German Poland. It has been assigned by the emperor us tho permanent perma-nent residence of Prince Eltel Frlederlch, his socond son. It Is a massive structure, built at a cost of 51.33fi,000. covers nearly an acre and a half and contains more than 600 rooms. Amon' thepc la tho great banquet ban-quet hall, surpassing in size and brilliancy bril-liancy of decoration any room of tho kind In Germany, being a fifth larger than ille famous white hall in tho imperial im-perial castle in Berlin. Its wulla are paneled and richly carved In marble. A tower 2-10 foot high surmounts the chapul, which Ib cxciulsitcly decorated with mosaics executed by Prof. Augustus Ootken of the imperial tccimical school at Charlottenburg. |